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...later tried to get Stuyvesant faculty to cosign a letter to Harvard stating that Weinstein was emotionally disturbed. No one agreed, though, and Weinstein ended up in Cambridge. "Anders was a brilliant student destined for great things," says Stuyvesant English Department Chairman William Ince. "But there was always a clown in him that...
...HARVARD, that clown has made an appearance on more than one occasion. Weinstein certainly made a distinct impression on the audiences at the last two Quincy House talent shows. Two years ago, a football player was just about to carry him offstage when he ended his barrage of dead baby jokes. "Those weren't so bad," says Weinstein. "What really killed me was the one about Imple-the-pimple-sucker. One Quincy resident calls that performance "probably the most disgusting thing I've heard in my life...
...campaign has taken a nasty turn. White says Clements is "a clown" who uses "smear tactics." Clements says the attorney general "is an incompetent lawyer" who has lost most of his big cases. Responding, somewhat lamely, that he has won most of those that he appealed, White declares: "The heroes in Texas were at the Alamo and San Jacinto. You've got to fight." Facing Dollar Bill's well-oiled assault, state Democratic leaders are wondering if, like the Texans at the Alamo, White lacks the organization and resources...
...monotonous to an ambitious artist. Like Chaplin after The Great Dictator, Allen may have felt he had outgrown both the comic character he created and inhabited and the kind of movie his audience expected of him. And so Allen has pulled his persona out of shape, stretching the sad-clown face to accommodate loftier musings. In reaction, moviegoers have pulled back: a Woody Allen movie is not the purring money machine it used...
Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...